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X.mehrdad Posted 21 years ago

Mr.P You might be able to help me

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00 Surrended by an army of native speakers, backed by Milton, Chesterton, Brooks, Auden, Wordsworth, and of course Shakespeare, claiming that in a poem, an opening with a subordinate clause is the best, I need some examples of the contrary. 02br
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0 Hello x 02br 02br 00A few non-subordinate 'famous poems': 02br 02br 00Sumer is y-comen in (anon) 02br 00Hide, Absalom, thy gilte tresses clear (Chaucer) 02br 00Come live with me, and be my love (Marlowe) 02br 00Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Shakespeare) 02br 00Gather ye rosebuds while ye may (Herrick) 02br 00Why dois your brand sae drop wi' bluid, Edward, Edward? (Anon) 02br 00The curfew tolls the knell of parting day (Gray) 02br 00I wander through each charter'd street (Blake) 02br 00It is an ancient Mariner (Coleridge) 02br 00My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains (Keats) 02br 00The woods decay, the woods decay and fall (Tennyson) 02br 00That is no country for old men.

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  • 0 Hello x 02br 02br 00A few non-subordinate 'famous poems': 02br 02br 00Sumer is y-comen in (anon) 02br 00Hide, Absalom, thy gilte tresses clear (Chaucer) 02br 00Come live with me, and be my love (Marlowe) 02br 00Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  • (Shakespeare) 02br 00Gather ye rosebuds while ye may (Herrick) 02br 00Why dois your brand sae drop wi' bluid, Edward, Edward?
  • (Anon) 02br 00The curfew tolls the knell of parting day (Gray) 02br 00I wander through each charter'd street (Blake) 02br 00It is an ancient Mariner (Coleridge) 02br 00My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains (Keats) 02br 00The woods decay, the woods decay and fall (Tennyson) 02br 00That is no country for old men.
  • (Yeats) 02br 00April is the cruellest month (Eliot) 02br 00He disappeared in the dead of winter (Auden) 02br 02br 00I hope you have some money riding on this.
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0 Hello x 02br
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00A few non-subordinate 'famous poems': 02br
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00Sumer is y-comen in (anon) 02br
00Hide, Absalom, thy gilte tresses clear (Chaucer) 02br
00Come live with me, and be my love (Marlowe) 02br
00Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Shakespeare) 02br
00Gather ye rosebuds while ye may (Her
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0 Hello Mr.pedantic 02br
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00 That is no country for old men, and April...you are the best maestro. Thank you 02br
00I have got a few more from Yeats, and I think, I will be able to show them that I am not dead from the neck up. 02br
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00 Thank you again Sir, and My Best Regards. 0-
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0 You're very welcome, x! 02br
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00It sounds a fascinating argument. I'm wondering about your friends' line of attack. Something like: 'with an initial subordinate clause, the reader's interest is aroused, because he wants to know what's coming'? 02br
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00MrP 0-
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0 Hello sir, 02br
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00That’s what, they exactly believe, whereas for me poetry is more close to music or painting, and the one who is writing a poem, his one and only concern is freedom, and above all freedom from temporality, and its timelessness brings it closer to painting or music than to the other forms of arts, then they come up with the argument that a little chan
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